Create a working definition of "effective lesson design."
Use this definition to coach each other in improvement of classroom lessons.
Learn about technology integration and coaching skills.
As a coach, you will provide instructional support to teachers as they learn how to enhance student learning by integrating technology. To do this, it is critical for you to be able to answer several questions:
What does it mean to enhance learning with ICT?
How can ICT be integrated into the curriculum to help achieve academic standards?
What are the principles of effective lesson design?
Helping Teachers Integrate ICT
Sometimes students' excitement about learning a new technology significantly increases their engagement in a learning activity. But increased engagement is not enough: ICT integration must add learning value. One of your tasks as a coach is to help your collaborating teacher(s) integrate ICT so that one or more of the following objectives is met:
Students gain access to information or points of view they could not readily find elsewhere.
Students investigate a concept in ways they could not without the ICT (for example, virtual dissection).
Students organize information to facilitate comparison, analysis, or synthesis.
Students use the same problem-solving tools adults use.
Instruction is differentiated to meet the needs of different learners.
Students collaborate with remote groups or subject-matter experts outside the classroom.
Students publish their work using the most appropriate tools for their audience.
Lesson Design - Cyber Safety
Kate Sykes - presentation of Cyber Safety lesson sequences.
Using Scavenger Hunt and Learning Activity Checklist critique the lessons you have seen.
SESSION 4 - Friday 26th November
Review Session 3
Session 4.
We will:As a coach, you will provide instructional support to teachers as they learn how to enhance student learning by integrating technology. To do this, it is critical for you to be able to answer several questions:
Helping Teachers Integrate ICT
Sometimes students' excitement about learning a new technology significantly increases their engagement in a learning activity. But increased engagement is not enough: ICT integration must add learning value. One of your tasks as a coach is to help your collaborating teacher(s) integrate ICT so that one or more of the following objectives is met:
Lesson Design - Cyber Safety
Learning Activity Checklist.doc
Looking at two lessons - What's for Lunch?
Lesson Enhancement
Lesson Sharing